A House in Damascus

Syria's silent majority, and other BBC correspondents' reports from the United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France and Georgia, presented by Kate Adie.

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What's happened to her house in the Old City in Damascus? Diana Darke hears how it's fared during the ongoing conflict in Syria. David Shukman is in Prescott, Arizona, a community devastated after 19 firefighters lost their lives battling a forest fire. Kinshasa in DR Congo is Africa's fastest-growing city - Jonny Hogg's been finding out how law and order's fast collapsing there too. Natasha Breed, who lives in Kenya and regularly films lions there, is shocked at the conditions a lion's forced to endure at a circus in France. And, on a lighter note, Rajan Datar, high in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, is invited to try his hand, or rather his larynx, at the ancient art of polyphonic singing.